Improvement in the processes of ornamenting skirts



'r. nAvIso'N. PROCESS OF ORNAMENTING SKIRTS, 89c.

Patented July 4., 1.876.

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THOMAS DAVISON, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO LOUIS I DRYFOOS, OF NEW YORK CITY.

IMPROVEMENT IN THE PROCESSES OF ORNAMENTING SKIRTS, &c.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 179,529, dated July 4, 1876; application filed May 20, 1875.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, THOMAS DAVISON, of Brooklyn, Kings county, New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ornalnenting Skirts by Printing and Embossing, of which the following is a specification:

This invention is directed to a method of incorporating with or adding to the main body or the skirt a cloth strip or strips of a different color from that of the main portion of the skirt.

It is desirable that the line of union of the two fabrics should be, as far as possible, concealed, so that the skirt when finished may appear to be made of a single piece of fabric.

This result I effect by making use of the printing or embossing process as a means of concealing the joint. I apply to or onthe main body of the skirt the strip or strips of differentcolored fabric. I print along the line of scam with the same color any desired pattern, which extends partly upon the main body of the skirt, and partly upon the attached strip. In this way the line of seam or union of the two fabrics is, to a great extent, concealed.

The accompanying drawing represents one way of giving effect to my improvement.

The drawing. represents a portion of the lower'part of a finished skirt.

A is the main body of the skirt. B is a strip of a difi'erent-colored cloth, attached thereto by sewing or otherwise. Upon the two parts thus united is printed, or printed and embossed, any suitable pattern, the printing or color extending and covering the seam or line of union a, and a portion of the cloth on each body of the skirt a strip or strips of differentcolored fabric, and then printing or embossing in color the skirt and attached strip, with a pattern which extends along over and on each side of the seam or line of union between the two fabrics, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony. whereof I have signed my name tothis specification before two subscribing witnesses.

W. H. S. LEE, M. BAILEY. 

